Michael Z

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Puzzle Classic "Baba is You" recreated in JavaScript - Behind the Code

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Namespaces are just fine - No need to destructure every object in JavaScript

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Code reviews - Are you checking for this?

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Jan 23 '22

Reverse-engineering frontend (Cuphead's film-grain effect)! Can you?

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Comparing strings - What can go wrong #unicode

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Mar 28 '21

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and is your SPA really safe from it?

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Feb 11 '21

Secure Cookies in 5 steps

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Feb 1 '21

CSRF tokens for SPAs - Possible?

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Jan 25 '21

Demystifying CORS, CSRF tokens, SameSite & Clickjacking - Web Security

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Michael Z

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How to test time-dependent code - time travelling in JavaScript

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Michael Z

Oct 12 '20

Git aliases for increased productivity

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Michael Z

Sep 15 '20

Isomorphic handling of promises in libraries like react.js, vue.js, angular, svelte etc.

#javascript #vue #react

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Michael Z

Sep 13 '20

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Michael Z

Aug 16 '20

CI/CD Workflows for open source NPM packages

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Michael Z

Aug 14 '20

Publish to NPM automatically with GitHub Actions

#github #git #devops #opensource

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Michael Z

Aug 13 '20

GitHub Actions: Setting up Test Coverage for a JS/TS/Node project

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Michael Z

Aug 12 '20

GitHub Actions: Setting up CI for a JS/TS/Node project

#github #git #devops #opensource

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Michael Z

Aug 3 '20

Clean URL slugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Michael Z

Jul 19 '20

Your flexbox is actually not centered

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Michael Z

Jul 15 '20

1 year with React Hooks - Biggest lesson learned

#react #javascript #webdev

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Michael Z

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Vue 3 just got me from interested to excited

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Michael Z

May 30 '20

Good bye API layer. Uniting frontend and backend

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Michael Z

May 17 '20

Tailwind CSS for skeptics - Interactive Tailwind CSS tutorial

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Michael Z

May 13 '20

Detecting the end of a fluent API chain in JavaScript

#javascript #node

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Michael Z

May 8 '20

6 brilliant webdev related finds for April/May - blog posts/videos/JS stuff/SVG resources

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Michael Z

Apr 27 '20

Learning by vueing - Learn Vue interactively

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Michael Z

Apr 6 '20

Amazing feature landed in Node.js - Breaking free from the request and avoid argument drilling with AsyncHooks

#node #javascript

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Michael Z

Mar 23 '20

You may not need vuex. Here are some alternatives

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Michael Z

Mar 8 '20

Add Tailwind CSS to a vuetify project

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Michael Z

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Michael Z

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Adonis.js - Advanced factories

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Michael Z

Jan 27 '20

Getting things done when you "don't have the time"

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Michael Z

Dec 27 '19

How TypeScript over babel greatly simplifies creating libraries

#typescript #babel #javascript #node

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Michael Z

Dec 17 '19

Vue.js - Cleaning up components

#refactorit #vue #javascript #codequality

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Michael Z

Dec 12 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 9. Cleaning up after ourselves

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Michael Z

Dec 1 '19

"git nah" and more handy Git aliases

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Michael Z

Nov 7 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 8. Third party APIs, ioc and custom validators

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Michael Z

Oct 6 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 7. Moderators

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Michael Z

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Tips on naming boolean variables - Cleaner Code

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Michael Z

Sep 28 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 6. Validation

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Michael Z

Sep 21 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 5. Middlewares

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Michael Z

Sep 14 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 4. Using the auth middleware

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Michael Z

Sep 9 '19

TDD course with AdonisJs - 3. Model factories & DB transactions

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Michael Z

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TDD course with AdonisJs - 2. Our first test

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Michael Z

Aug 18 '19

Testing made easy with AdonisJs

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Michael Z

Aug 14 '19

What are your top three vscode configurations?

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Michael Z

Aug 14 '19

Simple libraries do not guarantee simplicity - Rethinking popular NodeJs libraries

#node #javascript #beginners #architecture

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Michael Z

Jul 14 '19

A case against modern CSS frameworks (component libraries)

#discuss #css #vue #react

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Turn any non fluent API into a fluent one - tap tap tap

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Michael Z

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Utility-first CSS - You have to try it first!

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Michael Z

Jun 10 '19

React Hooks for Vue developers

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Michael Z

Jun 9 '19

4 MySQL traps

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Michael Z

Jun 1 '19

Automatic Dependency Injection in JavaScript

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Michael Z

May 9 '19

IIFEs in JavaScript and how to avoid this common mistake

#javascript #node

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Michael Z

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Demystifying Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, Service Containers and Service Providers

#node #javascript #ioc #di

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Michael Z

Apr 30 '19

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Michael Z

Apr 28 '19

Undo changes in Git - Cheat sheet for git checkout, stash, reset, clean, revert, rebase -i, amend

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Michael Z

Apr 25 '19

Refactoring search queries in Adonis.js

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Michael Z

Apr 6 '19

The trouble with implementing SSR into a Laravel/Vue app

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